Re: Bug#301839: freebsd5-buildutils: can't fulfill the build dependencies in sarge

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:50:36PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Adrian Bunk (bunk@stusta.de) [050329 19:35]:
> > If testing should make any sense, handling build dependencies as 
> > dependencies in the testing scripts was required.
> 
> We all know that your opinion about the usefulness of testing differes
> from the one the release team has.  Please just accept this
> disagreement, and leave it at that.  Thanks.


Was has this to do with the question whether testing handles 
dependencies as build dependencies or not?


Facts:

You yourself have signed the announcement that removing two thirds of 
the architectures from Debian releases was required since otherwise 
release cycles on the order of 12-18 month weren't possible with the 
testing release process. The release team agrees that the testing 
release process is worth this removal.

You want to offer security support for testing (which is AFAIK the 
reason why the sarge release is stalled since 7 months).

Security support can turn out to be a nightmare if build dependencies 
aren't fulfilled.

Handling build dependencies as dependencies should be trivial in the 
testing scripts and would only be in the spirit of testing.


Question:

Why don't you avoid all the possible problems for security support in 
testing by handling build dependencies as dependencies?


> Cheers,
> Andi

cu
Adrian

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